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    occasional spells of poor health and her family needing er every once in awhile. However just like Sargent her life was her art. In 1880, the family spent their summers in the country at Marly-le-Roi in France. While she was there she painted more of Lydia even her mother reading to her grandchildren. Mary’s style of painting was different from Sargent. She displayed a quiet feminine world where she places the subjects quietly seated, occupied, and with interest in their task. However, they…

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    On 07/19/2015 at approximately 2218 hours I, Officer Zachary Swedberg #111, Interview Daniel Gerald Vanravenhorst DOB: 08/02/1982. I interviewed Daniel at the Houston County Jail. I read Daniel the Miranda Advisory and he agreed to speak to me. Summary of recorded statement from Daniel. (Custodial statement was digitally recorded for full account see transcription) Daniel said about 10:00-10:30 he was in bed when Jadi came into the bed room. Daniel said Jadi wasn't being very nice with…

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    escape the chance of remaining poor. “How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine. But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture” (Austen 183). Even though, Wickham and Lydia were not necessarily in love, they eloped because Wickham was attracted to the advantages that Lydia came with. They were unable to deny the…

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    their relationship was similar to that of Lydia and Wickham--Mr. Bennet had married a woman he found sexually attractive without realizing she was an unintelligent woman. Mrs. Bennet’s favoritism towards Lydia and her comments on how she was once as energetic as Lydia reveals this similarity. Mr. Bennet’s comment on Wickham being his favorite son-in-law reinforces this parallelism” (Morris). Second, Lydia and Wickham is an example of a bad marriage because Lydia tried to run off in secret and…

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    “There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from” (Atwood 24). The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a story of freedoms, and questions what it means to truly be free. An oppressive character in the novel, a woman apart of the theologically tyrannical Gilead, named Aunt Lydia introduces the ideas of “freedom to” and “freedom from” early in Offred’s telling of her story (Atwood 24). ‘Freedom to’ is best described as being able to do what one wants to do,…

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    In the beginning, we see Marco cry several times. Following the tears streaming down his face in the intro, Marco cries again after he meets his girlfriend Lydia, a female bullfighter. Lydia’s lethal fear of snakes drives Marco to kill the one in her house. Lydia starts to fall for Marco while he cries following the killing of the snake. Almodóvar balances the emotions of love and despair like a scale of balancing a pound of feathers and a pound of bricks,…

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    According to Monica Hesse, author of Girl In the Blue Coat, “Mina’s storyline draws from Lydia van Nobelen-Riezouw, though not a member of the underground camera, a loosely joined network of professional photographers, did live in an apartment abutting the Schouwburg’s rear courtyard, and Lydia did take photographs of the Jewish prisoners when she recognised a childhood friend among them.” But, what I’m actually here to talk about, is what motivated Mina to take pictures of everything. Mina…

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    vulture that was flickering over George’s head, as “A shadow passed through the sky. George Hadley looked up, and as he watched the shadow moved across his sweating face. “‘Horrible creatures,’” he heard his wife say. “‘The vultures”’(Bradbury,1). Lydia describes the vultures as filthy or horrible creatures that are perfectly defined in the video as dark, dangerous mortals. The shadow cast on George shows the mystery or pessimism in the story. The video…

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    Chloe Miller date Ap Literature Pride and Prejudice essay Mr. And Mrs. Bennett Nosey And Detached Present throughout Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice are the themes of marriage, love, and family these themes are not better represented than in the Bennett family. The principle family of concern in the novel, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett undoubtibly love their five daughters. The novel is heavily influenced by consequences and simply wouldnt function without them. Mr. Bennett is a prime example of…

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    Houston Buehler Mr. Disney/7 English 1 Honors 13 October 2015 Collection 1 Essay Collection 1 portrays how individuals who have different views cannot make society better. In the articles “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen all show how when there is people butting heads nothing is fixed it only gets worse. In the story “Once Upon a Time” Nadine Gordimer describes how the family’s “trusted” housemaid is too…

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